Posted: Sun Sep 29 2002
Check-out Girl Wishes Customers Wouldn't Try To Explain Purchases

Jenny Carson, 22, has announced she will no longer listen when customers try to explain why they are purchasing certain items.

Carson, who has worked at Dave's Corner Market for the last three years, made the announcement on Sunday after a customer held up the express lane for several minutes explaining the unrelated nature of the items he was purchasing: hand lotion, a six pack of beer, and a poster of the Olsen twins.

"The guy just started telling me how the items weren't related," says Carson. "He said the lotion was for his wife, the beer was for him, and the poster was for his kids. Like I care."

The previous hold up occurred when a middle aged man felt the need to explain the innocent nature of his purchase of a cucumber, salad tongs, the swimsuit edition of Teen magazine, and a bottle of olive oil: "He kept assuring me it was nothing perverted," Carson said. "He told me he was going to give the magazine to his daughter, make a cucumber salad, and then masturbate."